Photo via Twitter/@claybavor
Photo via Twitter/@claybavor

If you ever sat and wondered, “Mmm, I wish someone would animate how much faster a space probe is than a Boeing 747 aircraft,” it’s your day.

Clay Bavor, a VP of product at Google, created this animation, showing what it would look like out an airplane window going at the speeds of a 747, a SR-71 spy jet and the New Horizons probe:

Per Gizmodo, Bavor did note that to put “36,000 mph in perspective, at that speed, you’d be able to fly from San Francisco to New York in about five minutes. Of course, you’d also be turned into a ball of searing hot plasma.”

Actually, Bavor’s Twitter feed is fan-freaking-tastic, with several nods to the geeky and weird. Check out what he found on Aug. 25:

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